Ejects

Part of speech: verb

Definitions

1. To force something out or to remove it suddenly from a location or system
2. To discharge or push away an item or person quickly and forcibly
3. To forcefully push or throw something out from a place or container

Etymology: "Ejects" is the third-person singular present of "eject", so it describes someone or something doing the throwing out. The verb traces back to Latin "ēiciō", meaning "to throw out", built from "ē-", a form of "ex" meaning "out", and "iaciō", "to throw". It reached English through Middle French "éjecter", and the Latin perfect passive participle "ēiectus" gives the sense of something already thrown out. The noun has a more surprising story. The English noun "eject" was coined by the mathematician and philosopher W. K. Clifford, who formed it from the Latin "ēiectum", meaning "(that which is) thrown out". He modelled it on the pairing of "subject" and "object", so that a thing thrown out of a situation could be set against the thing doing the throwing. The plural "ejects" simply follows from that noun.

Synonyms: expels, discharges, throws out, forces out, eliminates

Antonyms: admits, allows, retains, accepts, includes